Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What is alpinism? And is it the same as mountaineering? We take a look at the fast and light approach to climbing mountains. | ...

Robert Lamborn, the club’s founding chair, invoked the “the grand peak that towers above us … discovered in 1806 by Pike” as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Olympic sport ski mountaineering is making its debut at the 2026 Winter Games in Italy. Ski mountaineering combines uphill ...

Understand the Olympic ski mountaineering format — how each event is structured, the timing and scoring systems and how medals are decided across sprint and mixed relay events at the 2026 Milan ...

This week, for the first time at the Olympics, skiers will scamper uphill wearing carpet-like skins on their skis or just their stiff boots, then barrel back down an ungroomed course. This is ski ...

Cortina d'Ampezzo, ITALY--The early April air was crisp and the competition was fierce as Italy crowned its newest champions in Ski Mountaineering: Nicolo Ernesto Canclini and Giulia Compagnoni.

The report by mountain guide Giancarlo Maritano of a short ski touring trip in Norway, not to the more famous Lofoten Islands ...

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For longtime hikers and backpackers, the desire to tackle bigger, more technical mountains tends to come around eventually. Spend enough time staring at glaciated peaks from camp, and sooner or later, ...

Kirsty Coventry, elected last March as the first female president of the International Olympic Committee, touts the Milan Cortina Winter Games that officially open Friday as “the most gender-balanced ...

U.S. skier Helen Desmond competes in the ISMF Ski Mountaineering World Championships in Switzerland in March 2025. (Valerio Pennicino / Getty Images) The only new sport at the 2026 Milan-Cortina ...

The steepest hill ski mountaineering athlete Ana Alonso Rodriguez had to climb on her way to an Olympic bronze medal involved no course at all. No snow or competitors, either. Just trusting in herself ...